About

is an Iranian American writer who specializes in queer heroes. They are a member of Clarion West’s class of 2026, a 2025-2026 Poetry Coalition fellow, a 2025 Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices fellow, and a first reader for OTHERSIDE. Their work is forthcoming from or appears in After Happy Hour, Fruitslice, Frazzled Lit, By Her Sword: A Sapphic Fantasy Romance Anthology, and Nearest and Dearest: An Anthology of Dyke Domesticity.

An anthropologist by training, they remain fascinated by the human experience. If they’re not writing, they’ve likely escaped to garden. Home is with their partner and two cats in the US South, which you can pry from their humid, sweaty hands (please don’t). More at @susannesalehi.